Jersey-fied ==> animal print

It's not just the ladies of New Jersey that love animal print, as I sure do. Now I must admit, the trend had to grow on me a bit but after watching Jerseylicious, Real Housewives of New Jersey & Jersey Shore I just love it. I'm convinced I can wear it in a much classier way than some of the ladies on these shows and not make it look trashy. 

One of my fashion pet peeves is that I hate when people wear brown and black together as very rarely people wear it the way I like. With animal print however it's the perfect way to wear black and brown. The print shown below can be worn with a black, brown, beige, white even a blue bottom. This therefore stretches the functionality and the # of outfits that this top can go with (see my previous post about Building your wardrobe- work attire).

My mom got me these shoes on sale (bless her shoe & deal loving heart- hence where I got it from). At first I was like yuck black and brown together but then (angels singing) I loved it. I'm like "Dang these are hot" and I had to find the right outfit to incorporate black & brown. 

Shirt US$10 (Charlotte Russe, sale)
Skirt US$2 (thrifted)
Shoes US$20 (Charles by Charles David, TJ Maxx)

Hooker heels- make it stop!!!!!

On E!'s "Fashion Police", one of my fave shows- it's the perfect mix of comedy, fashion & celebrities, there's a segment called "Got to have it, make it stop". What they do is each member of the panel votes on a trend as to whether they got to have it or they want it to stop. 

I recently went to a staff meeting at work and realized that a few of the ladies had on sky high, platform, 'hooker-like' shoes. My first thought was "how do they walk in those? clearly they don't walk around a lot". So it got me thinking, I hate the sky high platform shoes as a lot of people don't know how to walk in them for one and also I walk around a lot at work and can't have on these sky high shoes as it's juts plain uncomfortable and I move slower because I can't walk fast in them. 

 


One of the ladies had on one that really looked like hooker heels and I'm sorry I just don't think these types of shoes are appropriate for work. MAKE IT STOP!!!!. 

I can't wait for the trend to be over but it just seems to be getting worse. Now I'm short (all of 5 feet 3 3/4 inches, yes the 3/4 counts :p) and I can appreciate a nice heeled shoe as it add inches to my short stature and also it makes my calves/legs look sexier. 

I've browsed countless sites and I see shoes I love but the heel is too high. Too many shoes are above 4 inches, and I can barely wear 4 inches either. I've bought a few online and when I get them and wear them, they are so uncomfortable that I barely wear them- now what's the point in that. Now I've resolved to only buying shoes over 3.5 inches if I can try them on, it's the angle of the heel to the front of the shoe that counts. This limits me to only when I travel to the USA but maybe it's a blessing in disguise as I have soooo many shoes as it is..... well maybe not. LOL.

Take these Guess shoes, the heel height is about 4 inches and I thought OMG these are going to be uncomfortable but I tried them on and they were comfortable. 

Co-worker's shoe, I think it's 5 inches with a 1 inch platform

People say these sky high heels are comfortable because of the platform but even then it's just too much. I have 2 pairs of these shoes and that's 2 too many. 

Conclusion: MAKE IT STOP!!!!
XOXO
Ronz